The car bombing was carried out by Jabhat Fateh al-Sham fighter Abu Islam, according to video released by the group, previously affiliated with al-Qaeda under the Jabhat al-Nusra flag. <a href="https://twitter.com/MousaAlomar/status/809069109552025600" target="_blank">Activist reports</a> suggest that a number of pro-Assad forces, mostly Lebanese and Iraqi militiamen, were killed in the car bombing attack. Such incidents occurred during the daytime hours of December 14. <a href="https://twitter.com/PrimoAhmad/status/809170672668835851" target="_blank">Activists inside the city</a> have said that clashes came to a halt during the late evening hours of December 14, just hours ahead of planned evacuations for wounded civilians out of the city.